Little Known Aspects of Veneration of the Old Testament Sabbath in Medieval Ethiopia


The Church of Ethiopia did observe both the Old Testament or the Jewish Sabbath and its Christian counterpart. This practice became one of the distinctive features of the Ethiopian Christianity. In various periods of its history the problem of veneration of the Jewish Sabbath provoked a lasting cont...

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Publicado en:Scrinium
Autor principal: Gusarova, Ekaterina V. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Brill 2017
En: Scrinium
Año: 2017, Volumen: 13, Número: 1, Páginas: 154-158
Clasificaciones IxTheo:CG Cristianismo y política
HB Antiguo Testamento
KAF Baja Edad Media
KAH Edad Moderna
KBL Oriente Medio
KDF Iglesia ortodoxa 
Otras palabras clave:B Ethiopian Church
 medieval Ethiopian Kingdom
 Old Testament / Jewish Sabbath
 veneration of Saturday and Sunday
 King Zär’a Ya‘ǝqob
 King Claudius
 Ethiopian Royal chronicles
 King Täklä Giyorgis I

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Sumario:The Church of Ethiopia did observe both the Old Testament or the Jewish Sabbath and its Christian counterpart. This practice became one of the distinctive features of the Ethiopian Christianity. In various periods of its history the problem of veneration of the Jewish Sabbath provoked a lasting controversy among the country’s clergy. It was under the reign of the King Zär’a Ya‘ǝqob (1434-1468) that the observance of both Sabbaths became the officially accepted by the Ethiopian Church and the State. However, some evidences of this custom can be traced for many centuries before. Following the Confession of faith of the King Claudius (1540-1559), the priority was given to the celebration of Sunday. The author of the article was fortunate to discover several cases of the preferential veneration of Sunday during a military campaign of 1781, described in the chronicle of the King Täklä Giyorgis I.

ISSN:1817-7565
Obras secundarias:In: Scrinium
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00131p13